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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 22 2008 - 11:33:36 CST

Tom,
  Yes, it's possible, but not using the "snapshot" renderer. You would
need to use one of the others such as Tachyon, POV-Ray, etc. I may one day
make the 'snapshot' renderer capable of drawing to off-screen display
buffers, but this is very system-specific and typically still requires a
connection to the windowing system, so rendering using one of the other
renderers may still be a better way to go.

Cheers,
  John

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:59:50AM -0600, Thomas C. Bishop wrote:
> Is is possible to generate an image of a molecular in vmd without
> actually displaying it?
>
> for example the following does not work but can something similar be
> done, like set a different display device?
>
> vmd -dispdev none -pdb my.pdb
> vmd> render snapshot some.tga
> vmd> quit
>
>
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